10 most heartbreaking moments of the decade

8. The Sandpaper Gate and its repercussions

During the second Test between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town, Steve Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft got themselves involved in a controversy that shook the cricketing universe. With the fans reacting quite vehemently in the first few days, all the three players were suspended temporarily from the game.

But the fans started coming around and started backing the players when Warner and Smith broke down while talking to the press. There was another heartbreaking incident when certain police personnel dragged Steve Smith like a criminal in the Cape Town airport, videos of which went viral.

While the controversy was definitely of the biggest in cricket in the last decade, fans really felt bad for the players witnessing its repercussions. They eagerly waited for these two gentlemen to be back in the game, and they did with a bang in the Ashes 2019 and Pakistan Test series.